Physical Development
This type of motor skill involves large muscle movements like crawling and walking.
What are gross motor skills
The rapid formation of neural connections in infancy is called what?
What is synaptogensis?
This stage describes how infants learn through senses and actions.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
This early sound-making stage begins around 2 months.
What is cooing?
This describes a biologically based emotional style.
What is temperament?
This type of motor skills involves small movements like grasping objects.
What are fine motor skills?
The process of eliminating unused neural connections is called what?
What is pruning?
The is the understanding that objects still exist when out of sight.
What is object permanence?
Repeating consonant-vowel sounds like "bababa" is called what?
What is babbling?
This attachment style shows distress but comfort upon reunion.
What is secure attachment?
Newborns lose about this percentage of their body weight after birth.
What is about 5%?
What is myelination?
Fitting new information into an existing schema is called what?
What is assimilation?
This occurs when toddlers combine two words like "more milk".
What is two-word speech?
This attachment style ignores intense distress and difficulty calming.
What is resistant (ambivalent) attachment?
By age one, infants typically do this to their birth weight.
What is triple it?
This condition is caused by severe calorie deprivation.
What is wasting?
Changing a schema to fit new information is called what?
What is accommodation?
This theory says language is learned through reinforcement.
What is the behaviorist theory? (Skinner)
This attachment style ignores the caregiver upon return.
What is avoidant attachment?
This reflex helps infants find food by turning their head toward touch.
What is the rooting reflex?
This form of malnutrition results from protein deficiency and causes swelling.
What is kwashiorkor?
This fear of unfamiliar people reflects cognitive development.
What is stranger anxiety?
This theory proposes an inborn language acquisition device.
What is the nativist theory? (Chomsky)
This attachment style includes confusion and fear toward the caregiver.
What is disorganized attachment?